Chapter 15 : The Harvest

The surrounding people were shocked when they saw the weak Jia family enter with so many spirit beasts, and one of the guards that Jia had previously rejected decided to take advantage of this opportunity and cause trouble for her.

"Oh Long Tao! You've become so bold, haven't you?"

"Hahaha! Long Rourou has been accepted into the Black Snake Academy this year, and with her talent being 4-star high, I'm sure you all know what that means, right?"

"I'd like to see who has the balls to stop this lady and cause trouble for her?"

'This is how you reward my family for what I've done for the village, you ungrateful ones, right? I'll make sure to remember that?" '

Then Long Jia confidently walked forward, not caring about the guard, followed by Long Wan and Long Roruo carrying their catch, while Tian slowed down a bit, careful to remember the face of the guard and the faces of everyone who wanted to come forward to help him and exploit their catch, and only stopped after hearing that Roruo had joined the academy.

'Excellent, now add humans to the list of dangers I must be wary of.'

After examining the faces of the villagers' scoundrels and noticing their eyes staring at Long Jia's back angrily and unwillingly, he quickly corrected his thoughts again.

'No!! Humans are much more dangerous than other monsters, and even orcs and goblins seem simple compared to them.'

'It seems that I need to build up my own strength in this world quickly.'

Tian thought a little more before smiling fiercely inwardly.

'Hehe!' Now I have an idea of what I should do and how I will act in the future.'

The three of them continued walking inside the village until they reached their home. They took their spoils and placed them inside the large courtyard, then quietly closed their doors.

Then they looked at each other again and started laughing happily.

They may have put on a strong and cold front now, but in reality, they were extremely afraid, especially of their transformed spirit beast being discovered.

Once that happened, even the village leader would not stand still and would intervene to confiscate his body from them. At best, he would pretend to compensate them with some white spirit stones.

Tian stood in front of his family, then walked over to his aunt, hugged her tightly, kissed her on the head, and stared at her with angry red eyes.

"I promise you, aunt, I will not allow you to suffer such injustice again! It will be over my dead body!"

The three of them stared at him in astonishment. Then Long Jia smiled at him and pulled him towards her, hugging him tightly.

"Don't worry Tian, I'm sure you'll do it, I'll be waiting for you!"

Long Jia saw the two sisters with tears in their eyes, so she sighed and pulled them towards her. The four of them hugged each other for a while.

"Fuuu! Come here!"

After a while, the aunt smiled at them.

"Cheer up! Let's have a good feast!"

They then began to process the corpses of the various wolves with knives. Tian spent another 20 energy points to upgrade them, making their work much easier. They only suffered in their first attempts.

They emptied each beast perfectly, and after filtering out the edible flesh and internal organs that were rich in spiritual energy, they extracted the bones, claws, fangs, and hides in another bundle. Tian told them to leave them and not sell them after he had a good idea to use them.

They also collected the remaining corpses to use as fertilizer for the medicinal herbs in their garden.

Tian then turned to their aunt who was Busy cutting up the leader of the pack

'So much meat!'

'Mmm! It's true that they are spirit beast meat and won't spoil easily, but they must be stored in a good place.'

Tian got up and checked his family's storehouses. After finding that they were upgradable, he did so immediately, increasing their size and storage capacity for longer periods, and in return he had 354 energy points.

They then began storing the meat rich in spiritual energy and the stars in their eyes, imagining the progress they would make with its help.

Training in martial arts consumes a lot of money and resources, and ordinary food cannot satisfy their appetite or provide their bodies with spiritual energy no matter how much it is, unlike the meat of spirit beasts and the spiritual herbs rich in spiritual energy.

Therefore, the meat of spirit beasts and also the beasts in the higher realms are very popular in the market, as there is no person in this world who does not want to not have the ability to practice martial arts every day.

In addition to meat, beast bones can be considered excellent medicinal materials, as they can strengthen muscles and bones, nourish the kidneys, and rejuvenate vitality.

It can also be used with claws, fangs, and other body parts of beasts to craft weapons

This is why humans continue to live alongside the Great Forest

Despite all the dangers they face, the benefits they can gain if they evolve properly and in an orderly manner are immeasurable

The resources they have obtained from the forest so far have been one of the most important reasons for humans' survival in the wars against goblins and orcs for thousands of years

At this time, Long Wan stepped in front of Tian and commented

"Although selling all our beast resources can earn us a small fortune, investing them in training and improving our bodies will have much better returns in the future!"

"…Yes! You're right!"

Tian was silent for a while before his sister answered in a low voice

Their aunt approached them after she finished processing the body of the transformed hyena leader and obtained from it a huge amount of meat and resources that exceeded half of the resources of the other hyenas combined

"Although you are facing a spirit beast A mutant and your defeating him is more than a happy and fortunate opportunity! However, his presence at the edges of the forest and not even within the outer area is evidence that a possible wave of monsters may occur in a few years to a decade or two!"

The two sisters trembled as they imagined the arrival of a wave of monsters, the main reason for their loss of their families and suffering all these years.

"Don't worry, you have enough time to prepare, and with Tian's help I am confident that you will turn this crisis into an opportunity and gain many benefits from it!"

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In Long Fuji's house, Long Hai's swollen face was wrapped in bandages and he frowned deeply after hearing the news that the Long Jia family had entered the village carrying the spoils of the spirit beasts.

"Damn it, it would have been great if they were all killed in the forest!"

"But how did they manage to defeat the entire herd?" Even that little b*tch was able to defeat me even though I used a skill that made my strength almost comparable to that of a third level fighter!"

"Mmm...! It seems they have a special secret! Hehehe..."

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After this incident, Long Tian, Long Rou Ruo and Long Wan did not return to the forest, and instead, they became much more diligent in their training and could even be described as extreme.

They decided that the next time they entered the Great Forest, they would be fully armed and better prepared and would not suffer like this time.

As for those spirit cores, they decided to hold off a little and sell them in Black Snake City to get a better price for them instead of selling them in the village.

Long Jia also took advantage of her improved medical knowledge thanks to Tian's help, focusing a little more on making medicines and alchemy, and because her injury was slightly healed after consuming the heart and many internal organs of the transformed spirit beast, her work results were much better than before.

Tian also decided to invest in what his aunt made, upgrading all the potions and healing pills she made, even the failed ones, and then selling the low-quality and low-level products while deciding to store the rest for their own use or to sell them in Snake City Black

Thus, the family's income greatly improved, and Jia's alchemy skills also improved steadily due to her repeated medicine making and trying out new recipes without fear of failure, unlike her previous state where every ingredient was extremely important to her.

The three of them fought fiercely during that battle, especially since she did her best to repel the attacks of the spirit beasts and directly clash with them, which refined her foundation much better and stimulated her internal potential. With the meat rich in spiritual energy, she was about to break through to the second level, which she had remained in for more than 3 years.

Also, after eating a lot of meat and bones of the spirit beasts for several days, Tian was able to perform more postures to reach the 15th position of the first part of the Asura Body Technique, which further improved his strength.

The bodies of the rest of the family members also improved greatly, especially with the consumption of the mutant beast meat, which had the greatest effect on all of them and made their bodies fuller and more energetic, unlike her previous weak and thin state.